| A | B |
|---|
| Cortez | conquered the Aztecs |
| Pizarro | conquered the Incas |
| Olmecs | 1st native civilization in Americas |
| Mayas | civilization located on Yucatan Peninsula - built pyramid like structures |
| Incas | civilization lived in the Andes - roads, bridges, tunnels, self-sufficient |
| self-sufficient | you can survive on your own, grow enough to eat |
| cash-crop | you grow something to sell/make money |
| terrace-farming | agriculture on mountains |
| caudillo | a dictator |
| conquest | to take over |
| imperialism | taking over an area for your own benefit |
| mercantilism | taking natural resources, i.e. sugar cane, from a colony - to a mother country, refined & sold back for a profit |
| Miguel Hidalgo | leader of Mexican independence |
| gaucho | a Latin American cowboy |
| Gran Colombia | Bolivar's idea of a United States of Latin America |
| Simon Bolivar | Father of Latin American independence |
| Jose de San Martin | leader of southern South American independence |
| Toussaint L'Overture | leader of Haiti's independence |
| encomienda | large plantation |
| inhabit | to live |
| Aztecs | warriors in Mexico - ritual sacrifices |
| Grito de Dolores | Mexico's ringing of the bells - signaled beginning of independence |
| 1 crop economy | only 1 crop is grown, nation/people depend on it to survive |
| Panama Canal | a strategic chokepoint in Latin America/North America |
| Porfirio Diaz | Mexican dicator [1900]improved economy at expense of peasants |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | it divided the New World between Spain & Portugal |
| Line of Demarcation | another term for the "Line of Demarcation" |
| viceroy | Spanish ruler in Latin America |
